Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? (Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching")
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. (Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching")
It is because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the world is able to strive with him. (Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching")
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. (Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching")
So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased. (Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching")
The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves. (Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching")
The road you can talk about is not the road you can walk on (Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching")
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. (Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching")